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S. N. Bose sent Albert Einstein a paper in 1924 deriving Planck's law in a new way. Einstein translated and published it, and extended the idea. The resulting Bose–Einstein statistics describe a whole class of particles, called bosons in his honour.
Key contributions
- Bose–Einstein statistics (1924)
- Prediction of the Bose–Einstein condensate, created in the laboratory in 1995
- Champion of teaching science in Indian languages (Bengali)